March 03, 2023
MailScanner Team https://www.mailscanner.info
MailScanner is an open source email gateway that processes email for spam, viruses, phishing, and other malicious content. MailScanner leverages other open source software such as ClamAV and Spamassassin. MailScanner will run on any NIX platform and includes install packages for popular distributions such as Redhat, Debian, and SUSE in addition to any generic NIX package.
Info: https://www.mailscanner.info
Release: https://www.mailscanner.info/downloads
Github: https://github.com/MailScanner/v5
Manual: https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/docs/ms-admin-guide.pdf
Milter: https://github.com/MailScanner/v5/blob/master/doc/MailScanner%20Milter%20Guide.pdf
Support: http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
Redhat-based
rpm -ivh|-Uvh MailScanner-5.x.x-x.rhel.noarch.rpm
/usr/sbin/ms-configure [--update]
Debian-based
dpkg -i MailScanner-5.x.x.x-x.noarch.deb
/usr/sbin/ms-configure [--update]
SuSE-based
rpm -ivh|-Uvh MailScanner-5.x.x.x-x.suse.noarch.rpm
/usr/sbin/ms-configure [--update]
Other *nix
tar -xvzf MailScanner-5.x.x-x.nix.tar.gz
./install.sh
sendmail - https://www.mailscanner.info/sendmail
postfix - https://www.mailscanner.info/postfix
exim - https://www.mailscanner.info/exim
Edit /etc/MailScanner/defaults and set options
Edit /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf and set options
service mailscanner start
For generic NIX systems, create a symlink for controlling the start/stop/restart of the program to scripts in:
/usr/lib/MailScanner/init, or /usr/lib/MailScanner/systemd
- This is not required for RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE
- Use appropriate package install for these instead of this one
/etc/MailScanner
/usr/share/MailScanner
/usr/lib/MailScanner
